Semillon

Avocado, chicken stock and wild mushrooms are where you start. Horseradish and mustard are two of the difficult foods to pair – but just maybe you will find that this is your wine to pair them with. A serious homemade herb butter sauce or a roast chicken also work well. Cheese pairing is always difficult, but we recommend a matured pecorino or a pont l'évêque.

The Ghost Corner range is inspired by the extreme coastal area around Cape Agulhas near Elim, known as ‘Spookdraai’ where many ships have been wrecked. These wines are as intriguing and extreme as the story of their origin at the southernmost tip of the Cape winelands. A wine that showcases its unique terroir.

Finally, the wine is matured further on the fine lees for an additional four months with a monthly batônnage of tank and barrels before the final blending and bottling.

Grapes are hand-harvested in the early morning between 22.8–23.5°B. The winemaking process is done in reductive conditions with the use of dry ice and carbon dioxide gas. Grapes are crushed at 8°C with approximately eight hours of skin contact before a light pressing. Two days of juice settling is followed by racking and the addition of yeast. Thereafter, 30% of the juice is transferred into 225l French oak barrels for fermentation and maturation for five months; and 70% of the juice is tank fermented at 11°C for approximately 24 days.

Winemaker David Nieuwoudt created the Ghost Corner brand in 2007, initially starting off with a Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc and adding three new wines in 2012: The Bowline, a Sauvignon blanc and Semillon blend; Ghost Corner Pinot Noir; and Wild Ferment Sauvignon Blanc, a Sauvignon blanc naturally fermented in older barrels. Every year David selects a small quantity of grapes from vineyards in the Elim ward near Cape Agulhas on the southernmost tip of Africa. Ghost Corner takes its name from this treacherous coastline where more than 130 ships have been shipwrecked through the ages. The deep lime-rich soil with plentiful slate and gravel deposits in Elim’s maritime climate gives rise to exceptional white wines.